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After The End Of The Second World War It Was A Categorical Imperative For Us To Declare That We Renounced War Forever In A Central Article Of The New Constitution.

My Observation Is That After One Hundred And Twenty Years Of Modernisation Since The Opening Of The Country, Present-day Japan Is Split Between Two Opposite Poles Of Ambiguity.

If Any Suffering Was Fruitless It Was The Agony Of A Hangover; What He Suffered Now Could Not Expiate Suffering Of Any Other Kind.

As I Grew Up, I Was Continually To Suffer Hardships In Different Realms Of Life - In My Family, In My Relationship To Japanese Society And In My Way Of Living At Large In The Latter Half Of The Twentieth Century.

The Japanese Chose The Principle Of Eternal Peace As The Basis Of Morality For Our Rebirth After The War.